The company, which had 1,753 employees in Australia, was previously involved in more than a dozen projects, including Rio Tinto’s West Angelas power station project and Cape Lambert power station as well as BHP Billiton’s Yarnima power station in the Pilbara.

Forge was also working on a $1.47 billion processing facility at Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill iron ore project in WA, which was worth $830 million to Forge.

The first meeting of creditors is scheduled to take place in Perth on February 21.

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